Leadership Blind Spots and What To Do About Them

Knowledge is built from personal experience and coloured
by our needs and values. It follows that all knowledge is
personal and incomplete. We all suffer from ‘blind
spots’. But when leaders have them, it matters. To guide
people on a journey of continuous learning, understanding and
adapting to events as they occur, leaders must overcome their
own blind spots and those of their organization.

Any leader who implements the practices outlined in this book
will immediately improve their ability to perform in today’s
competitive global environment. Karen Blakeley provides in-depth
analysis of how leaders learn on the job - and what gets in the
way. Most importantly she offers a systematic approach for
accelerating leaders’ learning capacity - and maximising
their performance potential.

KAREN BLAKELEY is Assistant Director of the Centre for
Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City
University and is also a director of Waverley Learning – a
leadership development company. She recently completed her
doctorate looking at how managers learned when their organisations
went through change.

Karen originally trained in finance and worked in the City for
five years. She subsequently qualified as an organisational
psychologist and has spent over 15 years helping individuals and
organisations adapt to change. Karen has appeared on TV,
radio and in the press commenting on the psychology of high
performance in demanding environments such dealing rooms in the
City. She regularly presents at conferences and has had a number of
articles published in the area of senior executive coaching. Karen
is working with a number of top international companies developing
new tools and techniques to promote ‘learning agility’
amongst their current and future leaders.

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